I think of myself as someone who thinks largely through writing. Thus I write more than most people, and I write in… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The crucial legacy of the personal computer is that anyone can write code for it and give or sell that code to… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Oh, I collect facts and quotes when I can't write, and I can't write most of the time. I do a little… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly… — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you just have to hold each other’s hands and walk through it all.” — A.D. Posey Copy Share Image
When I write, I tend to be quite cut off from the world. At that point of time, I'm not thinking about… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
I really wanted to be a cartoonist, and I was in 4th or 5th grade and I would bring my drawings in,… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I am thrilled to write 'The Treasure Chest,' and to bring to life not only the childhoods of famous people from history,… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
The most common thing I find is very brilliant, acute, young people who want to become writers but they are not writing.… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
If I write something set 60 years in the future, I am going to have to explain how humanity got there, and… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected to art and music… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get… — Valerie Simpson Copy Share Image
I aspire to write what are called 'familiar essays.' They begin in the personal and end in the universal. It's not for… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
I like to take people you wouldn't really think people would write novels about: an aqueduct engineer, a code-breaker, a hedge-fund manager.… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I've been writing plays since the seventies and only came to moviemaking when I basically realized that I needed some money to… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
'The Warmth of the Sun' was a very beautiful song that Brian and I wrote in the time period associated with President… — Mike Love Copy Share Image
'The Immigrant Story,' which took me about twenty-five years to write, was a very simple story, but I couldn't think of how… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
It's a different thing to write a love story now than in the time of Jane Austen, Eliot, or Tolstoy. One of… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
It's fun for me to try to write concise, compact things. It's a very good exercise for me. And I think it's… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
At one point I would read nothing that was not by the great American Jews - Saul Bellow, Philip Roth - which… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I've always believed that you write to discover what you think. On most subjects, if I'm asked what do I think about… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I often tell people who want to write historical fiction: don't read all that much about the period you're writing about; read… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
I'm not somebody who carries around a notepad and writes songs all day long. I don't imagine everything I think of is… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit. — Martin Short Copy Share Image
I used to write at home, but it didn't ever occur to me to be a writer. — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Sticking to my schedule, I've gotten over seven months ahead, which allowed me to write a 'Pearls Before Swine' movie script for… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
